Someone Somewhere Is Made For You

#16 He wants me back

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Michael.

It felt strange to not have Cinderella sitting at the first seat on the front row.

"Finally, we can have some peace." Angela said happily while opening her laptop.

But I felt otherwise. It was too quiet and serious. Her absence was rather loud.

Ping...

My phone vibrated and I sighed.

I thought she would stop after the class starts, looks like she would not give up easily.

Cinderella had sent me a dozen messages requesting me to take her back.

She had even said that she learned to code the web-app that they were accused of buying and that I could test her.

I took the phone and put it on silent mode.

Halfway to the class, I heard the door being opened.

I turned to the door, expecting Cinderella, but it was Alex, her teammate.

"What's it?" I looked at him. "Do you have something to say? You are interrupting the class,"

"This will only take about five minutes," he said.

Everyone started to murmur and I nodded my head.

"Five minutes then."

Alex came in front of the class and looked at everyone.

"I am sorry. I know what I did was shameful," he said. "When every one of you worked your ass off to make a web-app within a short time, I tried to find the easy way out. I was actually trying to balance my time as I couldn't afford to spend a lot of time on this project because I am working two part times after college and it was difficult for me," he looked around. "Whatever the excuse may be, I know that I am at fault. I know I cannot run away from this situation. I want you to know that I am truly sorry,"

Some of the students nodded at that while a few sat there, looking still angry at him.

Alex nodded at me.

"What Senior Michael said was right," he said. "The project we bought cost us more than the money we earn from our part times," he said slowly. "How did we manage it?" He looked at Angela. "You guessed it right that day, it was taken from Ella," he said. "But you got it wrong too...Ella didn't know anything about our plan, she was overjoyed that we invited her to the team that she didn't notice that we were only using her for the money," he said while everyone looked outraged. "It made things easy for us when she took the week off and we planned the whole thing without her knowledge," he said. "She didn't know that the project was something we bought with her money, she was simply happy and believed in us," He turned to me. "Ella had no idea that this project was bought from outside. I did it. I convinced Vipin too, so if anyone has to take the blame, I will do that. Ella doesn't deserve to get kicked out of the project for what she didn't do. She didn't even know that we were using her for the money!"

"Are you sure about what you are saying?" I asked him and he nodded.

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you decide to confess this? It wouldn't be easy to do something like this,"

He laughed.

"That girl is not ready to give up," he said. "She has been bothering me too much that I ended up teaching her the whole thing about the project," he added. "I know that she won't have a chance unless you decide it,"